Having children earns benefit, start competing for dominance in the world by marrying a wife

Shangsha City is located in a vast desert, where mortals find it difficult to traverse, making it relatively isolated.

While Immortals can cross the desert, they choose places rich in Spiritual Energy when selecting places for cultivation or settling down.

Places like Shangsha City, which lack Spiritual Energy, potential, or population, wouldn't even attract Evil Immortals.

Shangsha City is far from being as prosperous as it was tens of billions of years ago. The outer city is covered with yellow sand, and its current population can't even fill the inner city.

Seeing Shangsha City in such a desolate state now, Lu Chen felt a bit sentimental; time truly can change everything.

When he passed Shangsha City years ago, it was so prosperous; back then, there were quite a few Immortal Monarchs present.

Upon arriving over Shangsha City, Lu Chen directly released his Divine Sense, seemingly searching for something.

Quickly, Lu Chen found what he was looking for and flew down from the Immortal Ship toward that place.

Seeing Lu Chen leave the Immortal Ship, Xiao Xueying and Cao Shiyun also disembarked, and then Cao Shiyun stored the Immortal Ship back into her little world.

Soon, Lu Chen brought the two women to a sand dune.

Seeing the sand dune, the two women felt even more confused, wondering what their junior brother was up to.

At this moment, Lu Chen raised his hand and used Immortal Aura to move the entire sand dune. In a matter of moments, all the sand in front of them had disappeared.

Once the surrounding sand was moved, a stone tomb appeared before them. In front of the stone tomb was a stele, but it didn't have any inscriptions, perhaps due to being weathered over time.

There were traces of a Formation on top of the stone tomb, which was surely protected in the past, but due to the long passage of time and lack of Spiritual Energy to maintain it, the Formation collapsed.

If it weren't for the Formation, the stone tomb might not have existed by now.

Seeing the stone tomb, the two women were curious about who was buried inside and their relationship with Lu Chen, but given the situation, they refrained from asking further.

Lu Chen came to the stele, released his Divine Sense to inspect the entire stone tomb, and then took out some Spirit Stones from his Space Ring to set a new Formation on the tomb.

After finishing everything, Lu Chen moved the yellow sand back over the stone tomb, letting it continue to be covered.

Then Lu Chen turned around, heading towards Shangsha City, with the two women hurriedly following.

At this moment, Cao Shiyun couldn't quite contain her curiosity and asked, "Junior brother, is that person your relative?"

Lu Chen replied with a smile, "Sort of."

The stone tomb held the remains of one of his maids from the past who helped raise him. After he was defeated back then, in his escape, she shielded him from an Immortal King's ambush.

In the rushed retreat, Lu Chen buried her body in Shangsha City.

Upon hearing Lu Chen's answer, Cao Shiyun didn't ask further.

Xiao Xueying thought to herself that someone that merited Lu Chen's personal visit might very well be one of his wives buried there.

Soon, the trio arrived at Shangsha City's gate, where some mortals wearing golden armor stood guard; their Realms mostly were Nascent Soul Realm.

The fact that Nascent Soul Cultivators were guarding the gate indicated that the City Lord was no ordinary person.

In Tianyan Immortal Domain, above Nascent Soul Realm are Divinity Transformation, Mahayana, Tribulation Crossing, and after crossing Tribulation, one can become a Mortal Immortal.

For Immortals, Nascent Soul is nothing much, but in the mortal world, Nascent Soul Cultivators are quite powerful.

Guards being Nascent Soul means it's managed by an Immortal, not a mortal.

Lu Chen thought to himself, it seems Shangsha City isn't entirely desolate yet; even with nearly dissipating Spirit Veins, there's still an Immortal staying here.

Lu Chen headed straight to the city gate, saying, "Senior Sister Cao, I plan to stay in Shangsha City for a while."

Cao Shiyun replied, "Cultivation is about training the heart; junior brother can stay wherever you wish."

Lu Chen didn't say much more and proceeded towards the city gate.

Soon, the trio arrived at the gate, and upon seeing them, the guard Nascent Soul soldiers immediately stopped them.

"Who are you?"

Upon being halted, Cao Shiyun didn't waste words and directly released her Immortal Aura. Feeling the pressure of an Immortal, the guards hesitated for a moment but didn't step aside.

Seeing them not budging, Cao Shiyun took out the Identity Token of Mysterious Moon Palace from her Space Ring; however, unexpectedly, the soldiers still did not clear the way.

Cao Shiyun coldly said, "What, don't you recognize the token of the Upper Sect?"

Hearing this, the soldiers exchanged glances, and then saluted Lu Chen and his group, saying, "Greetings, Upper Sect envoys."

Yet, after saluting, they still didn't make way.

Watching this, Cao Shiyun coldly asked, "What do you mean by this?"

"Since you've identified us as Immortals from Mysterious Moon Palace, why do you still refuse to let us through?" Always+ r.ea.d at the so.urce&—M^V@%L@E*MP!@+Y$R#.

At this point, a soldier stepped forward and said, "Envoy lord, our City Lord has decreed that during his seclusion, no Immortal is allowed entry into Shangsha City, not even envoys of the Upper Sect."

Hmm?

Upon hearing this, Cao Shiyun frowned slightly; Upper Sect envoys not allowed entry into Shangsha City?

Cao Shiyun then said, "Has your City Lord betrayed Mysterious Moon Palace?"

Shangsha City is merely a small city under Mysterious Moon Palace's jurisdiction, and the City Lord dares to refuse entry to Immortals from the palace, which indeed is odd.

This City Lord of Shangsha City is quite audacious, refusing entry to palace envoys, akin to betraying Mysterious Moon Palace.

Upon hearing Cao Shiyun's words, the soldiers broke out in cold sweat, yet still didn't clear the path, so Cao Shiyun increased her pressure.

Next moment, those immortal soldiers were forced to kneel under her aura.

One soldier quickly said, "Envoy lord, it's not that we don't wish to let you all into Shangsha City, but if we do, we along with our families will be killed."

Upon hearing this, Lu Chen and the others couldn't help but find it amusing, and Lu Chen said, "Do you think barring Upper Sect envoys will lead them to spare you and your families?"

"Or do you think Upper Sect envoys are more merciful than your City Lord?"

Hearing this, the gatekeeping disciples wore bitter expressions.

Observing their demeanor, Lu Chen thought, it seems the current City Lord of Shangsha City isn't the kind-hearted type; these people would rather offend Upper Sect envoys than their City Lord.